Covert Mission
Chapter 2
"I thought I was never going to make it."
"Welcome to Terminal City," said Max leading the transgenic around, "what's your name?"
"Tish," she said, "X5."
"This is Alec, I'm Max we're both X5's too."
"I'm glad you found found me when you did," said Tish.
The three of them entered into the main part of Terminal City wher Joshua, Mole, and the rest monitored the video cams.
"Hey Big Fella," called Max, Joshua came down to meet them.
"Dogboy's Joshua, that scaly one is Mole…." Alec was listing off names for Tish.
"Hey Little Fella, new transgenic?"
"Yeah this is Tish."
"Baby?" asked Joshua noticing her swollen stomach.
Yeah," said Tish.
"Gem just had a baby few weeks ago."
"You'll have to introduce us then she could give me some pointers."
"Why don't I help you find her?" asked Max.
"I saw her that way last," said Joshua pointing in a northen position.
"Thanks."
"I'll go wander," said Alec walking off.
"I've heard great things about this place," said Tish as she and Max started looking for Gem, "it's safe, human don't come near it because of the radiation or something, we're surrounded by our own kind and they won't slaughter my baby or take it for testing when it's born."
"Yeah," said Max, "So were…you married and split or…"
"What? Oh no," she said putting a hand on her stomach, "we were breeding partners and it wasn't pretty."
"Gem was with a breeding partner too, from the way she said I take it wasn't nice."
"It never is," said Tish, "don't you know what kind of orders they get?"
"Who?"
"The males, duh, What's your designation?"
"Why?" asked Max.
"Because I swear I've heard your name before back at Manticore," said Tish.
"452."
"The rogue? Escaped in '09 with eleven others and has been outside ever since?"
"Until I got caught and escaped again…why?"
"Rumour has it you got the best of the best."
"Best of what?"
"Breeding Partners," said Tish looking at Max in awe, "it was circulating back in Manticore that the doctors took all the X5 C.O's and put them through all sorts of tests my breeding partner was one they took but didn't make the cut."
"Cut for what?"
"For you my dear, I heard they chose the top three and gave you the one whose DNA was the most compatible with yours."
"Didn't test intelligence did they?" murmered Max under her breath.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"So?" asked Tish.
"So what?"
"Was it brutal?"
"I'm not following you," said Max not liking where this was going.
"The sex, did he kick you around?"
"Alec?! Kick me around" Oh as if! He came in all high and mighty 'We're breeding partners' he said then I kicked him into a wall and told him that was the only physical contact we were going to have and…"
"That Alec back there?" asked Tish
"Yes him…why?"
"What's his designation?"
"494."
"He left you alone?!" asked Tish in shock, "just like that? You said 494 right? The things I've heard about him….was he ordered to go easy on you?"
"What do you mean 'was he ordered to go easy on me' I've fought him before and he's always been the one on the ground."
"I think he's been playing with you, the 494 I've heard of doesn't go down easy unless he's sure he's going to get something out of it."
"Well I don't know what you've heard but here's the facts, Alec is an idiot who can in no way match me."
"He must have got different orders," said Tish more to herself then to Max, "No one I know of has taken a dive like this before, take it from me honey, them boys are ordered to breed in any way they deem fit willing partner or not but from the things I've heard about 494, Alec, I'd say he's playing you."
"Oh please Ale…"
"Hey Max," said a voice on her left.
Gem and her baby girl had just came into view.
"532?" asked Gem seeing Tish.
"Oh my God 467?" said Tish recognizing her one time friend, "Gem huh?"
"You know each other?" asked Max.
"Our units were close," said Gem holding her baby with one arm and hugging Tish with the other.
"So what are you calling yourself now?"
"Tish."
"It's great to see you again," said Gem.
"You too," said Tish, "an this must be your baby."
"This is her, you're almost due now aren't you?" said Gem.
"Almost."
"I'll leave you two to get caught up," said Max.
"Oh and Max," said Tish as Max was walking away, "Thank you."
"No problem."
Max walked away until she could no longer see Gem or Tish.
Alec? Playing me? Playing ME? He's an idiot! Tish is so wrong, I couldn't even begin to tell her how wrong she is, I wouldn't even know where to start! Alec has never gotten the better of me!
Max thought angrily quite aware that she was fighting a memory of the one time when he did.
Whatever he did not best me, he had White's help with that little tazer he shocked the hell out of me but that's the only time he could ever bring me down…with help!
Max tried to reasn all this out and by the time she got back to the main part of Terminal City she was completely reassured once more that Alec could never bring her down. And if Alec is the best Manticore had that's pretty sad. She laughed silently again quite confident and shoved the last bit of worry to the back of her mind. What's there to worry about? Why should I be worried?
"Where's Alec?" Max asked Mole.
"Down there teaching some kids those freakin' holds Manticore made the X5's learn." He pointed her in a direction.
She finally found Alec with a bunch of transgenics.
"And if my lovely assistant would kindly step over here for a moment," he said looking at Max.
"Alec I really don't feel like hurting you today," said Max.
"C'mon Maxie when aren't you in the mood to inflict some sort of bodily harm on me?"
"What'd I tell you about calling me that?"
"Maxie Maxie Maxie Max Maxie Maxie Maxie Max Max Max Maxie Maxie," sang Alec to the Indiana Jones theme.
"I'm going to kill you," she said.
"That's the spirit MAXIE," said Alec, "now I want all of you to watch carefully…"
"…as I kick his ass," said Max interupting Alec's sentence kicking him in the head.
"Hey I didn't say go."
"Shut up and fight," said Max using this opportunity to prove Tish oh so wrong.
Blow by blow, kick by kick, Max and Alec fought. Alec grabbed both of Max's arms when she charged him and flipped her over his shoulder. When she landed she kicked his lower leg in and sent him to his knees. She went to kick him in the face and was slightly taked aback when he grabbed her leg and held onto her ankle with his right arm.
"All right now this is what I've been talking about," said Alec to his audience, "when you have her leg like this you take your left arm and place it around her leg so your hand is resting right under her thigh."
Before Max knew what was happening, Alec threw her to his left pinned her right arm behind her back grabbed onto her hair and put his other arm around her neck. When she became reoriented she was on her stomach pinned to the ground with Alec holding her firmly in place.
"Now Max I want you to try and get out of this," said Alec.
She tried but the more she strugglesd the tighter his hold aroung her neck became and the less air she had. It also didn't help that he was on top of her, pinning her to the ground, so even if his arm wasn't around her neck, she would still have difficulty breathing.
"Not only does this technique imobilize the enemy but it also disorients them because of the lack of oxygen, and if she starts to move her right arm quite a bit it will snap under the position and pressure I am using."
As quick as it happened Alec let her go and got off of her. The crowd clapped and gave them room. Max started coughing and rolled over slowly onto her back, unsure of what just happened.
"What….did you do?" choked Max as Alec helped her up slowly.
"Holds, Manticore taught us to use them when we were sixteen."
"That was weakest one they taught us," he said.
"The weakest?" repeated Max rubbing her throat.
"Ready to go?"
"Let's," said Max walking dizzily, she would not give Alec the satisfaction of having to wait for her.
"I think you should take a breather."
"And I said…" she started before falling into his arms.
"Yup," said Alec to himself, "I rule."
He helped the semi-conscious Max to her apartment. She was quite dizzy having gotten up too fast but wasn't totally out. That was a fluke thought Max still refusing to consider what Tish had said.
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A/N: Gee I wonder what's going to happen….
Disclaimer: Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.
Chapter 2
"I thought I was never going to make it."
"Welcome to Terminal City," said Max leading the transgenic around, "what's your name?"
"Tish," she said, "X5."
"This is Alec, I'm Max we're both X5's too."
"I'm glad you found found me when you did," said Tish.
The three of them entered into the main part of Terminal City wher Joshua, Mole, and the rest monitored the video cams.
"Hey Big Fella," called Max, Joshua came down to meet them.
"Dogboy's Joshua, that scaly one is Mole…." Alec was listing off names for Tish.
"Hey Little Fella, new transgenic?"
"Yeah this is Tish."
"Baby?" asked Joshua noticing her swollen stomach.
Yeah," said Tish.
"Gem just had a baby few weeks ago."
"You'll have to introduce us then she could give me some pointers."
"Why don't I help you find her?" asked Max.
"I saw her that way last," said Joshua pointing in a northen position.
"Thanks."
"I'll go wander," said Alec walking off.
"I've heard great things about this place," said Tish as she and Max started looking for Gem, "it's safe, human don't come near it because of the radiation or something, we're surrounded by our own kind and they won't slaughter my baby or take it for testing when it's born."
"Yeah," said Max, "So were…you married and split or…"
"What? Oh no," she said putting a hand on her stomach, "we were breeding partners and it wasn't pretty."
"Gem was with a breeding partner too, from the way she said I take it wasn't nice."
"It never is," said Tish, "don't you know what kind of orders they get?"
"Who?"
"The males, duh, What's your designation?"
"Why?" asked Max.
"Because I swear I've heard your name before back at Manticore," said Tish.
"452."
"The rogue? Escaped in '09 with eleven others and has been outside ever since?"
"Until I got caught and escaped again…why?"
"Rumour has it you got the best of the best."
"Best of what?"
"Breeding Partners," said Tish looking at Max in awe, "it was circulating back in Manticore that the doctors took all the X5 C.O's and put them through all sorts of tests my breeding partner was one they took but didn't make the cut."
"Cut for what?"
"For you my dear, I heard they chose the top three and gave you the one whose DNA was the most compatible with yours."
"Didn't test intelligence did they?" murmered Max under her breath.
"What?"
"Nothing."
"So?" asked Tish.
"So what?"
"Was it brutal?"
"I'm not following you," said Max not liking where this was going.
"The sex, did he kick you around?"
"Alec?! Kick me around" Oh as if! He came in all high and mighty 'We're breeding partners' he said then I kicked him into a wall and told him that was the only physical contact we were going to have and…"
"That Alec back there?" asked Tish
"Yes him…why?"
"What's his designation?"
"494."
"He left you alone?!" asked Tish in shock, "just like that? You said 494 right? The things I've heard about him….was he ordered to go easy on you?"
"What do you mean 'was he ordered to go easy on me' I've fought him before and he's always been the one on the ground."
"I think he's been playing with you, the 494 I've heard of doesn't go down easy unless he's sure he's going to get something out of it."
"Well I don't know what you've heard but here's the facts, Alec is an idiot who can in no way match me."
"He must have got different orders," said Tish more to herself then to Max, "No one I know of has taken a dive like this before, take it from me honey, them boys are ordered to breed in any way they deem fit willing partner or not but from the things I've heard about 494, Alec, I'd say he's playing you."
"Oh please Ale…"
"Hey Max," said a voice on her left.
Gem and her baby girl had just came into view.
"532?" asked Gem seeing Tish.
"Oh my God 467?" said Tish recognizing her one time friend, "Gem huh?"
"You know each other?" asked Max.
"Our units were close," said Gem holding her baby with one arm and hugging Tish with the other.
"So what are you calling yourself now?"
"Tish."
"It's great to see you again," said Gem.
"You too," said Tish, "an this must be your baby."
"This is her, you're almost due now aren't you?" said Gem.
"Almost."
"I'll leave you two to get caught up," said Max.
"Oh and Max," said Tish as Max was walking away, "Thank you."
"No problem."
Max walked away until she could no longer see Gem or Tish.
Alec? Playing me? Playing ME? He's an idiot! Tish is so wrong, I couldn't even begin to tell her how wrong she is, I wouldn't even know where to start! Alec has never gotten the better of me!
Max thought angrily quite aware that she was fighting a memory of the one time when he did.
Whatever he did not best me, he had White's help with that little tazer he shocked the hell out of me but that's the only time he could ever bring me down…with help!
Max tried to reasn all this out and by the time she got back to the main part of Terminal City she was completely reassured once more that Alec could never bring her down. And if Alec is the best Manticore had that's pretty sad. She laughed silently again quite confident and shoved the last bit of worry to the back of her mind. What's there to worry about? Why should I be worried?
"Where's Alec?" Max asked Mole.
"Down there teaching some kids those freakin' holds Manticore made the X5's learn." He pointed her in a direction.
She finally found Alec with a bunch of transgenics.
"And if my lovely assistant would kindly step over here for a moment," he said looking at Max.
"Alec I really don't feel like hurting you today," said Max.
"C'mon Maxie when aren't you in the mood to inflict some sort of bodily harm on me?"
"What'd I tell you about calling me that?"
"Maxie Maxie Maxie Max Maxie Maxie Maxie Max Max Max Maxie Maxie," sang Alec to the Indiana Jones theme.
"I'm going to kill you," she said.
"That's the spirit MAXIE," said Alec, "now I want all of you to watch carefully…"
"…as I kick his ass," said Max interupting Alec's sentence kicking him in the head.
"Hey I didn't say go."
"Shut up and fight," said Max using this opportunity to prove Tish oh so wrong.
Blow by blow, kick by kick, Max and Alec fought. Alec grabbed both of Max's arms when she charged him and flipped her over his shoulder. When she landed she kicked his lower leg in and sent him to his knees. She went to kick him in the face and was slightly taked aback when he grabbed her leg and held onto her ankle with his right arm.
"All right now this is what I've been talking about," said Alec to his audience, "when you have her leg like this you take your left arm and place it around her leg so your hand is resting right under her thigh."
Before Max knew what was happening, Alec threw her to his left pinned her right arm behind her back grabbed onto her hair and put his other arm around her neck. When she became reoriented she was on her stomach pinned to the ground with Alec holding her firmly in place.
"Now Max I want you to try and get out of this," said Alec.
She tried but the more she strugglesd the tighter his hold aroung her neck became and the less air she had. It also didn't help that he was on top of her, pinning her to the ground, so even if his arm wasn't around her neck, she would still have difficulty breathing.
"Not only does this technique imobilize the enemy but it also disorients them because of the lack of oxygen, and if she starts to move her right arm quite a bit it will snap under the position and pressure I am using."
As quick as it happened Alec let her go and got off of her. The crowd clapped and gave them room. Max started coughing and rolled over slowly onto her back, unsure of what just happened.
"What….did you do?" choked Max as Alec helped her up slowly.
"Holds, Manticore taught us to use them when we were sixteen."
"That was weakest one they taught us," he said.
"The weakest?" repeated Max rubbing her throat.
"Ready to go?"
"Let's," said Max walking dizzily, she would not give Alec the satisfaction of having to wait for her.
"I think you should take a breather."
"And I said…" she started before falling into his arms.
"Yup," said Alec to himself, "I rule."
He helped the semi-conscious Max to her apartment. She was quite dizzy having gotten up too fast but wasn't totally out. That was a fluke thought Max still refusing to consider what Tish had said.
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A/N: Gee I wonder what's going to happen….
Disclaimer: Dark Angel belongs to Cameron/Eglee etc.